Re: [T3] T3PBO ... take 2

[Per Lindgren <lindgre@online.no>]

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Hal Sullivan wrote:

> ..were T1's being built at Wolfsburg when the T3 and T4 were being made?
> IIRC, the German T3/T4s were built solely at Wolfsburg, with the 
> US-export
> T1's at a different plant (Emden?) ... alternatevely, assuming T1 
> production
> at Wolfsburg in conjunction with the T3 and T4, the ratio of T1 to T3 
> could
> have been rather small. 

Yes, T1s were built at Wolfsburg, but also in Emden and Ingolstadt and 
more than 20 other factories all over the world. Once again finding 
information in my old book (printed in 1967) I see that the Emden 
factory assembled type 1s for USA, from CKD kits which came by train 
from Wolfsburg. Daily production in 1966 was about 1000 cars for USA, 
assembled by approx. 5000 workers, while Wolfsburg put out approx. 5000 
cars per day (1966),  and had approx 48000 employees (1967).

It was also mentioned that there were 6 assembly lines at the very end 
of the production, which means that each of the 6 lines must have been 
putting out 833 cars per day. The workers had two shifts, one starting 
at 5:30AM to 2:00PM, the other from 2:00PM to 10:30PM. In other words, 
they had the production going for 17 ours per day, and with 5000 cars, 
that is no less than 294 cars per hour or 5 cars every minute! It really 
is hard to imagine the volume and size of the Wolfsburg factory!

PerL
73 Variant L


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